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The Program

Gathered at the Visual Resources Collection of the Department of Art History beginning at 9:30 am for light refreshments

Business Meeting began at 10:30 am

The Program 11:00 am

“Journey from Simple Automation of Slide Labels to Core 4.0 Compatible at Rutgers toward Goal of Sharing Metadata”
at 11:00 am
Donald W. Beetham, Visual Resources Collection

Brief discussions by

Kevin Ford, VR Professional, about programming the Rutgers database to import/export Core 4.0 compatible XML coding and

Chad Mills, RU Libraries Systems, about converting the revised database into Luna Insight.

There will be time for questions to Don, Kevin and Chad

Abstract

A common problem shared among many visual resource collections is the inability to meet the enormous demand for digital images. At the same time, the rigorous metadata standards of our profession are increasing the amount of time it takes to catalog an image. The only way to address both these seemingly mutually exclusive tasks is to talk less, and do more, about the sharing of metadata. With that thought in mind, and with the technical expertise temporarily at hand, the Rutgers University, Department of Art History Visual Resources Collection and RU Libraries Systems Department set off to transform our Core 3.0 compliant database to a Core 4.0 compatible database with XML import-export in the three month window we had to do it. Don Beetham, Department of Art History, will discuss upgrading the MS Access database to meet the new Core 4.0 elements and standards. Kevin Ford, Department of Art History, will highlight the issues programming the database to import/export XML data. Chad Mills, RU Libraries, will cover the implementation of the new database structure in Luna Insight.

XML Examples Note that these examples are arbitrarily chosen examples and are typical of records in the database. There has been no attempt to upgrade these records to reflect "best" cataloging standards.

Don's Powerpoint Presentation

Kevin's Powerpoint Presentation

View Chad's Powerpoint Presentation

Download Chad's Powerpoint Presentation

Chad's Mapping Document (Excel)

Photographs of Event

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